 Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like mummies ; others asleep on cushions, like so many Gothic tombs. Here a red cap over a wig ; there a face lost in the cape of a rug. One blowing a chafing-dish with a surplice sleeve ; another warming...  Harrow School and Its Surroundings - Page 126by Percy Melville Thornton - 1885 - 483 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pages
...hour of two " in the morning ; and that never was a more " curious, or a more diverting spectacle. " Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls "...wig ; " there a face lost in the cape of a rug. One blow" ing a chafing-dish with a surplice sleeve ; another " warming a little negus, or sipping Coke... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1835 - 242 pages
...brothers at two o'clock in the morning, and that never was a more curious or a more diverting spectacle: some wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...the cape of a rug; one blowing a chafing-dish with a surplice-sleeve; another warming a little negus, or sipping Coke upon Littleton, i. e. tent and brandy.... | |
 | Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte - 1875 - 620 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a more curious, or a more diverting spectacle. Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...negus, or sipping ' Coke upon Littleton,' ie tent and brandy. Thus did they combat the cold of that frosty night, which has not killed any of them, to my... | |
 | Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte - 1889 - 638 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a more curious, or a more diverting spectacle. Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...negus, or sipping Coke upon Littleton, ie tent and brandy. Thus did they combat the cold of that frosty night, which has not killed any of them, to my... | |
 | Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte - 1889 - 634 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a more curious, or a more diverting spectacle. Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...mummies ; others asleep on cushions, like so many (iothic tombs. Here a red cap over a wig ; there a face lost in the cape of a rug. One blowing a chafing-dish... | |
 | Wasey Sterry - 1898 - 508 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a more curious or a more diverting spectacle. Some wrapped in blankets erect in their stalls like...negus or sipping 'Coke upon Littleton,' ie, tent and brandy. Thus did they combat the cold of that frosty night, which has not killed any of them, to my... | |
 | Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte - 1899 - 792 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a more curious, or a more diverting spectacle. Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...little negus, or sipping 'Coke upon Littleton,'*'.*, tent and brandy. Thus did they combat the cold of that frosty night, which has not killed any of them,... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer - 1900 - 260 pages
...(Eton). — See quot. 1743. DANIEL WBAY, Letter from Cambridge [quoted in E ton j ana (1865), 70]. One blowing a chafing-dish with a surplice sleeve,...negus or sipping " COKE UPON LITTLETON," ie tent and brandy. Coll, subs. (United Services). — The College. 1899. Public School Mag., Nov., p. 345. To... | |
 | Charles Ryle Fay - 1907 - 148 pages
...brothers at the hour of two in the morning, and that never was a curious or more diverting spectacle. Some, wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...there a face lost in the cape of a rug. One blowing a charing dish with a surpliced sleeve ; another warming a little negus or sipping ' Coke upon Littleton,'... | |
 | Sydney Waterlow - 1912 - 244 pages
...at the hour of two in the morning; and that never was a more curious, or a more diverting spectacle. Some wrapped in blankets, erect in their stalls like...there a face lost in the cape of a rug. One blowing a chafing dish with a surplice sleeve ; another warming a little negus, or sipping Coke upon Littleton,... | |
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